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| - I was very excited to have a bakery in my new favorite spot, the 7th Street Market. Everyone needs a little sugar after a meal, so I love that you can pick up something to pick up something up along with your fish, meat, sushi or pizza. However, unfortunately, I've tried a couple times and unfortunately time after time I've been disappointed.
Of course I had to try the cupcakes for my cupcake list, so I tried a couple cupcakes for my husband's birthday and picked up a salted caramel and Reese's cupcake (hubs' favorite). I thought you couldn't miss with either flavor. Let's start with the positives- they were great looking, I liked the ez-peelaway wrapper for easy cutting and that the frosting wasn't too heavy. But the what ruined it for me was that the cake was really over baked and ultra dry, and even if you had frosting with each bite, the frosting was so light it didn't compensate. Also the Reese's had a liquid "peanut butter" filling instead of an actual PB ganache. As a result I much prefer my own pb cupcake. After we ate them, we just felt empty and unsatisfied and the birthday boy wanted another dessert. Major fail.
In all fairness when I spoke with the employee and asked what the best thing was, she said she was a cookie/brownie person more than cupcake, so I thought maybe that's their specialty and I should give them another shot. I have since bought 3 cookies- peanut butter, sugar and oatmeal raisin. In each case, the cookies again fell short and had a weird consistency. Perhaps they're made with GF flour and they just don't say it?? The taste was a little off too (for example the PB one didn't have a rich PB flavor and the sugar tasted a little like chemicals). Even with 4 people in the office, the cookies were only half eaten (only the oatmeal raisin one was eaten fully) and we threw out the rest. I hope they work out the kinks and consider new recipes.
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